Friday, May 21, 2010

Environmentalism is dead. It has been co-opted and corrupted to the point of absolute strangulation, and what remains of the corpse is being devoured rapaciously by the necrophiliacs at your favorite corporate-controlled big environmental organization.

Another tragedy befalls the environment and we can count on those that were once environmentalists to capitalize, figuratively and literally.

As you read, perhaps a 1000 or so organizations are happily signing (or being bribed to sign) yet another refined letter to President Obama, praising his efforts to date and encouraging 'change'.

With stellar coordination, you witness the appeals via email from these faux-enviros that clearly state how you can save the sea turtles, or protect the shrimp, or rid us of our reliance on oil by donating today.

This particular letter in circulation is about climate change, and is directly tied to the Gulf of Mexico in its appeal. As it stands, responsibility for pushing the letter lies with the minions at The Nature Conservancy. A quick look into the world of TNC and comprehension dawns. Their corporate partners in environmental crime and shame:

BP (you can't make this stuff up--editor)

ExxonMobil Corporation

3M Company

Alliant Energy

Altria Group

American Electric Power

Bank of America

Barrick Gold Corporation

The Boeing Company

Cargill

Caterpillar Inc.

Chevron

The Coca-Cola Company

Delta Air Lines

The Dow Chemical Company

Duke Energy Corporation

Eastman Kodak Company

Ecolab Inc.

MeadWestvaco Corporation

Monsanto Company

Nestlé Waters North America

PG&E Corporation

Plum Creek Timber Company

SC Johnson & Son, Inc.

Temple-Inland

Weyerhaeuser Company

Xerox Corporation

Other sponsors of the letter include The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Repower America aka the Climate Protection Action Fund aka The Alliance For Climate Protection (RA), and a few others.

The letter begins with 'applause', as one would expect. Continue reading, and, apparently, President Obama has done an amazing job prioritizing clean energy, solving the climate crisis, enacting fuel efficiency standards that are defining a new paradigm for vehicular motion, and hitting all the right buttons at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Who knew?

One can naturally assume The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, and Repower America know. And with a thousand or so other signatures on yet another letter driven by the same old set of corporate enviros, the rest of us know something as well; environmentalism is dead.

In its place we have the notions of 'pragmatic solutions' and 'noncontroversial approaches' to appreciate. Such words of discourse come from The Nature Conservancy itself.

It is a disgrace to ecosystems everywhere and the next seven generations that they pimp nature dot org as their official website.

It is difficult to tell which organization was the most influential in writing the letter to President Obama, but it reads with the gimmickry of a Karl Rove production.

Examining information about the National Wildlife Federation makes one consider that they may have been the lead, considering they take donations from the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Defense, The Boeing Company, Walt Disney Company, and on, and on, and on.

Care to visit with a Wolfowitz at a fundraiser? Throw a few thousand at NWF.

The mathematics of connection get simpler, even as the names get more complicated, with Repower America aka blah blah and blah. The CEO of National Wildlife Federation is on the board at RA. Repower America prostitutes itself with absurdity while dancing with John Kerry, Joe Leiberman, and Lindsey Graham - the "authors" of some pile of papers related to some charade about some climate (shout out to NRDC!) that will serve no useful purpose other than to keep the timber industry viable.

Seeking relevance, Al Gore may be seen at RA when he is not serving in his role at Apple Computer, Inc. (of child-labor/sweatshop city fame)

Repower America is also blessed with the presence of Joseph Stiglitz, a former Vice President at that most prestigious of entities, the World Bank.

The list of cannibals is much longer than The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, and Repower America, and the responsibility lies with those not herein named to prove themselves worthy candidates for resurrection as organizations willing to serve the next seven generations instead of the next seven figures.